Texas app store age verification is on hold after a judge blocks the law that would require Apple and Google to verify users’ ...

Age verification laws are, in some ways, part of a years-long reckoning over child safety online, as tech companies have shown themselves unable to prevent serious harms to their most vulnerable users ...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would have required age verification and parental consent for minors ...

In July, the United Kingdom began implementing major parts of the Online Safety Act, a law that, in the government’s words, “protects children and adults online” by putting “a range of new duties on ...

A decisive Supreme Court decision in the case of a Texas age verification law has changed the legal landscape for online speech. At least 24 states have passed some form of age verification laws, ...

The law was designed to protect kids from online predators and give parents more control over what kids see, but the judge ...

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...

Bluesky is expanding its age verification features stateside. The service will require users in South Dakota and Wyoming to verify their ages in order to access direct messaging and adult content on ...

Meta aims to roll out one age-check system for Facebook and Instagram as global child safety laws grow and pressure on tech ...